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AR# 30972

Description

I synthesize my design using Synplify. I have a PERIOD constraint for an input clock in the UCF file. When I run the Translate process, the following warning is shown in the ISE transcript window and Translate report:

Why are the constraints in my UCF file being overridden by a different PERIOD constraint?

Solution

This is a known issue which will be resolved in a future ISE release.

By default, Synplify generates a constraint file (.NCF) with auto-generated constraints that might constrain nets already covered in the UCF file. It is expected that NGDBuild should assign higher precedence to the constraints contained in the UCF file over those listed in the vendor constraints file (NCF). However, this is not occurring in 10.1.